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mwohah

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Registered: 2017-05-31

Posts: 67

Using Sysprof to profile with Mesa and GTK markers

I'm trying to use Sysprof 50.0 from the official repositories to capture GPU-related information about Mesa as is shown in the screenshots on this article, but on the 'Markers' tab, I can only get markers from GNOME shell itself to show up when I enable the respective option before capture. Nothing related to Mesa nor GTK shows up.

I already verified the following:

• It should already be merged in Mesa for a while now.

• Arch enables Sysprof support when building Mesa.

• Running sysprof-cli --force -- vkcube or similar doesn't log any markers related to Mesa either, nor does a 'freeform' capture of the desktop.

• The libsysprof-capture package is installed.

I also tried experimenting with MESA_GPU_TRACES, but that doesn't seem to apply (?) to Sysprof, only other types of profiling/tracing.

I also did a bunch of searching on the internet and documentation pages, but all I can find are various announcements that it's been added, not really any documentation on what's necessary to use it.

I'm using an AMD iGPU with Mesa (radeonsi), perhaps it doesn't work for this driver? Or perhaps there is some undocumented environment variable I have to enable to activate this?

Last edited by mwohah (Yesterday 12:26:44)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: Using Sysprof to profile with Mesa and GTK markers

Did you look for markers specific to mesa like those with gallium and/or egl in their name ?

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